Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 48% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Greene Township is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
Pennsylvania towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Pennsylvania town has 2.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Greene Township’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (25% of Pennsylvania towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: our sources. Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greene Township’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greene Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greene Township.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greene Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Greene Township is a township in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. At the 2020 census, the township population was 1,051, down from 1,091 in 2010.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,091 to 1,052 (-4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Greene Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Greene Township was taken out of the northern part of West Salem in 1844. Wilmington from the southern part of Lackawannock in 1846. In 1849 Findley was taken from the northern part of Springfield, East Lackawannock from the eastern part of Lackawannock, Worth from the southern part of Sandy Lake, and Mill Creek from the southern part of French Creek. In 1850 three new townships were erected out of Cool Spring, to wit: Fairview, in the northwest corner. Lake, in the northeast, and Jackson in the southeast, leaving the old name to the southwest corner. In 1851 Wolf Creek was divided so as
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Between 1,054 and 1,153 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Greene Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Greene Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Greene Township is more historic than 48% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
22% of Greene Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±8.8 points), against a typical 18% for a Pennsylvania town; the median home was built in 1974.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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